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Auction XXIII  24-25 Mar 2022
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Lot 779

Estimate: 7500 GBP
Price realized: 6000 GBP
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Q. Servilius Caepio (M. Junius) Brutus with P. Servilius Casca Longus AR Denarius. Military mint travelling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece, summer - autumn 42 BC. CASCA LONGVS, laureate bust of Neptune to right, trident below / BRVTVS IMP, Victory in long tunic walking to right, palm branch over shoulder and breaking diadem with both hands, broken sceptre on ground. Crawford 507/2; CRI 212; BMCRR East 63-65; RSC 3; FFC 2 (this coin). 3.95g, 20mm, 12h.

Near Mint State; lustrous metal, beautiful old cabinet tone. Rare, and among the finest known of the type.

This coin published in Richard Schaefer's Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP), binder 13, p. 107, available online at: http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.b13#schaefer.rrdp.b13_0154;
This coin published in Fernández, Fernández & Calicó, Catálogo Monográfico de los Denarios de la República Romana (2002);
From the Santana Collection;
Ex Alba Longa Collection, Áureo & Calicó, Auction 339, 14 November 2019, lot 1064 (hammer: EUR 9,000);
Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG Basel, Auction 53, 29 November 1977, lot 226.
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